Guest guest Posted October 14, 2000 Report Share Posted October 14, 2000 Rhonda, The virus would come in an email attachment. It has to be an executable file. Since you are not downloading the individual posts or digests, but reading them on the web, no, this does not expose you to viruses, per se. You do have cookies and certificates that can be read by the sites you visit, and they may spam you or send you some infected email, but again, you would have to download something. If you use OE, you are particularly vulnerable, I hate to say. Netscape, as I use, is not as vulnerable and to me, a better reader and facility, but it can be complex. Just in case though, sweetie, do you have a good virus scanner on your computer? If not, you should get one right away! The best ones are purchased in the store, but you can also get a good one either temporarily or permanently, free or otherwise, at http://www.tucows.com HTH Robin F Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 15, 2000 Report Share Posted October 15, 2000 Thanks Robin for the virus software. Moo moo! Judith in Seattle Re: ot/virus question > Rhonda, > > The virus would come in an email attachment. It has to be an executable > file. Since you are not downloading the individual posts or digests, but > reading them on the web, no, this does not expose you to viruses, per > se. You do have cookies and certificates that can be read by the sites > you visit, and they may spam you or send you some infected email, but > again, you would have to download something. If you use OE, you are > particularly vulnerable, I hate to say. Netscape, as I use, is not as > vulnerable and to me, a better reader and facility, but it can be > complex. > > Just in case though, sweetie, do you have a good virus scanner on your > computer? If not, you should get one right away! The best ones are > purchased in the store, but you can also get a good one either > temporarily or permanently, free or otherwise, at http://www.tucows.com > > HTH > > Robin F > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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